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Step 1 – Take the piece of paper showing the side with the windows and door, and fold it across the middle dotted line. The roof design should now be on the outside.
Step 2 – Take the folded paper showing the “Draw what makes a loving home” facing you. Take the right side of the paper, and fold the triangle lines so that the roof folds in on itself. You should now see the tree and the window on the front right side
Step 3 – Take the left side of the paper, and fold the triangle lines so that the roof folds in on itself. You should now see the window and loving home door on the front left side
Step 4 – Fold along the vertical dotted lines on each side to reveal the space to draw what a loving home means to you
Step 5 – Punch a hole in the top, and tie a piece of string through it so you can hang your decoration up at home to keep children who don’t have a loving home yet in mind this Christmas.
Take care with where you place your paper decoration – do not place it in close proximity to sources of ignition.
Over 82,000
children in care in England waiting to be fostered or adopted
Around 12,000
young people set to leave care this year
Over 2,900
children waiting to be matched with prospective adoptive families
Ref: First4Adoption, Coram, last accessed: July 2025 and About the Care System, Become Charity, last accessed: July 2025.
Home is where the start is
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